Senior Software Engineer

 

Commercial Tech & Change

Permanent | Full Time

Office Location: White City, London | Hybrid

Hiring Range: £70,000 - £85,000

 

Your work matters to millions.

 

Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it’s unsurprising that you’ll find us in every home in the UK. Our productions are famous worldwide and are at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution. 

 

When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact is felt in the business but big enough to reach millions of people. 

 

Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don’t just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.

 

 

Your impact sends ripples.

 

The team

Millions of people use the products we build. We’re customer-focused, informed by data and have a product mindset, using state-of-the-art cloud-first technology. Iterating and evolving daily. In a fast-changing world, we ensure our systems work effectively, and our Technology teams are spearheading the transformation to a digital-first business. There’s never been a more exciting time to join us. 

 

As part of the Commercial Technology & Change department, our engineering team builds multiple products using cloud-native technologies, and puts maintaining a strong developer experience at our core. 

 

 

The role

You’ll join a recently kick-started engineering initiative developing a cloud-centric engineering product critical to ITV’s advertising business. You will also play a key role in shaping and growing our inclusive engineering culture. 

You will work in the following areas:

 

Software Engineering and DevOps:

·       Contribute to software design and implementation of new product features, and to software optimisation efforts.

·       Be involved in defining and following software standards and processes, from peer code reviews to coding standards.

·       Follow best DevOps and DevSecOps practices to ensure successful delivery, observability, operation and security of software in production.

·       Work with test and operations teams to troubleshoot, resolve issues and write unit and automated functional tests.

Process and culture:

·      Help design and implement quality and cross-functional software development processes.

·       Have a role in defining and enabling a good engineering culture

Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)

·       Substantial knowledge of our technology stack (TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node.js).

·       Thorough understanding and demonstrable experience building software in our AWS stack, specifically: Lambda, Step Functions, AppSync, API Gateway, Aurora, DynamoDB.

·       Experience building user-centric applications.

·       Working in an agile environment.

·       Confident in approaching development with TDD principles.

·       Embracing code quality and automation with CI/CD tooling.

·       Worked with source control systems such as GitHub.

 

Other things will make you stand out (key criteria)

·       Experience with a mainstream Observability platform (such as DataDog).

·       Knowledge of the UK broadcast industry & broadcast/OTT advertising market.

·       Knowledge of the digital marketing and advertising industry.

·       Knowledge of Terraform and CloudFormation as IaC technologies.

·       SSO solutions such as Cognito and Okta.

·       Working knowledge of GitHubActions or other CI/CD frameworks.

 

ITV is for everyone.

 

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a position and have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).

 

We’re happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at talkingcareers@itv.com. 

 

Find out more about applying with a disability.

 

* There may be a few exceptions where we cannot take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.

 

Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it.

 

 

ITV offers some great rewards and benefits, including

·       Flexible working with a range of options to suit everyone

·       Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more

·       Annual bonus opportunity

·       Competitive pension contribution

·       Save as you earn - with a chance to buy ITV shares

·       Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life